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Re: Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top

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But didn't hesitate to go back and use all my notes, research and contacts to quickly backfill all his lack of details with my stuff!

putting “your stuff” into an auditable system with login and timestamps will help a lot in such situations. with some tools, you even get information on the top visitors to a given page. you know, like if someone needs to fill in their presentation at the last minute. if someone uses your notes for the benefit of the company, this is fantastic! but you need to save your receipts. just in case you need them.

Agree with all of your points. I had everything documented in a business case format for management to consume with references to more technical topics, in a wiki.

So, anyway, I think things have sort of settled on this stuff a bit now.

I'm been recently made the tech lead on this initiative that I did all the research on and my manager have me kudos for the idea.

In fact we're pivoting on alot of other things at work because of it, with top level leadership support.

So pretty insane.. but anyway

Re: Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top

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And then there are people like me, I only have hard skills and not enough soft skills. People end up not trusting me because they find out I'm hiding skills. And I end up not using them, and not even trying to convince people what's the right thing to do

I'm not sure I follow you. Why are you hiding your skills?

Here is an example where I would have had a better day if I simply didn't show my skills to anyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37308823

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